Will Coldwell

Do you feel like synthetic chicken tonight? Animal rights activists have offered a $1m reward to the first scientist who can come up with in vitro chicken. Metro asks if we need to find an edible and marketable meat substitute.

The popularity of online gaming worlds for children is soaring, but how safe are children on the internet? Metro visited the British HQ of Club Penguin, one of the most popular virtual worlds, to find out.

Earlier this month, Russians went to the polls to elect a new president. Vladimir Putin – the current prime minister – won the vote by a mile, but has since faced fierce protests and several allegations of vote fixing in an election many say was ‘clearly skewed’. Here, Will Coldwell asks just how easy it is to hoodwink the electoral system...